{"id":1233,"date":"2022-02-11T19:14:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T19:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2022-02-11T19:14:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T19:14:20","slug":"jon-appleton-composer-and-synclavier-innovator-has-died-cdm-create-digital-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1233","title":{"rendered":"Jon Appleton, composer and Synclavier innovator, has died &#8211; CDM Create Digital Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdm.link\/2022\/02\/jon-appleton-composer-and-synclavier-innovator-has-died\/\">https:\/\/cdm.link\/2022\/02\/jon-appleton-composer-and-synclavier-innovator-has-died\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was running sound at the U of Auckland, they held a conference and Jon Appleton presented the Synclavier.  He came to me before he gave the paper and asked that I make available four channels of audio input, set the levels once, and then leave the board alone.  Intrigued, I attended the presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was completely blown away.  I&#8217;d dabbled in analog electronics for audio since high school, but this presentation set me on a course of working with computers to make music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got in touch with Appleton when I was in the US, asking about graduate school.  He told me not to bother, to just keep working in the field outside of academia.  Glad I didn&#8217;t listen to him and joined the CCM at Mills instead.  Interesting note: Larry Polansky, one of my thesis advisors, ended up running the department at Dartmouth where Appleton taught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/cdm.link\/2022\/02\/jon-appleton-composer-and-synclavier-innovator-has-died\/ When I was running sound at the U of Auckland, they held a conference and Jon Appleton presented the Synclavier. He came to me before he gave the paper and asked that I make available four channels of audio input, set the levels once, and then leave the board alone. Intrigued, I attended the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}